I am happy to announce that a continuation to this mod will take place. I have once again replayed Mafia I and was hit with the nostalgia of revisiting the community and the modding days, thus I have plans to make a followup version to this mod.
The next version will include EVERY building that CityBars doesn't already have open be accessible (through loading, just like between missions)
Sneak peek:

Any updates mate? I'm really looking forward to this so I can't wait to see that.

Sadly, I am pretty busy with various things in real life, however, I really like coming back to modding Mafia from time to time, as this game associates with nostalgia for me.

It's hard to say whether this will ever become an active project again, but you should definitely expect the release of v0.3 at some point, because it's nearly finished (around 90%, I would say)

Here's the features currently done in v0.3:

Code:

Enterable buildings: Motorest, Racing Track, Hotel, Countryside, Airport, Villa, Carlo’s Apartment, Boat, Port, Prison, Gallery
Some activities in Paulie's Flat (picking up guns, people standing)
Morello's Bar shootout (similar to that in Rainbow Garden or the Italian Garden in the previous version)
Car dealerships (literally almost every car, except the prototypes, can now be bought)

brokenneedlecaa76 wrote:

incredible work.thank you for all your contributions and consumed time. I notice that there was mention of a powerpoint presentation in the messages. Is that still available anywhere? can anyone especially you modding gods direct me to some good tutorials or add tutorials to the site.thanks again.

Thank you!
The Powerpoint presentation should be available in the downloaded zip that you can find on this site. If not, I may reupload the presentation separately.